It’s heartening to see Celtic linked with a raft of players over the weekend and encouraging for many but I’d ignore everything you read about a Celtic target this far out from the transfer window opening. All an agent needs to do is post a DVD to Lennoxtown to be able to legitimately link his player to Celtic. The club will also scout up to 100 players a season, enough to keep you busy on the stats sites for hours, but even Ronny doesn’t know who he will be signing at this stage of the season.
After 11 wins in 13 league games Aberdeen’s title challenge inevitably slipped. They’ve won once since February, coming from behind against Motherwell at Pittodrie, as Celtic, Dundee and Partick Thistle have taken points from them. We are at the stage of the season when injuries, suspensions and fatigue kick in. Whereas Celtic were able to add quality to their squad in January, Aberdeen have to work on a tighter budget. That the gap at the top is only seven points, with Celtic having a game in hand, says a lot for the direction of travel at Aberdeen.
If Ronny gets his treble wish, this season’s title will be a lot tighter than the last treble, won at a canter by Martin O’Neill. It was a weaker league back then, Aberdeen were rubbish.
Talking about direction of travel, have you been watching the ebay auction for Hospitality for four for a day at this year’s Open Golf Championship at St Andrews? This is a unique prize and has attracted some incredible support.
The auction is in aid of the Celtic Quick News appeal to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. Shuttle transport for the five minute journey to and from the golf course as needed, with beer, Gin and Whisky tastings throughout the day with the master distiller.
You also have the chance to create a unique CQN single malt whisky cask worth potentially £5000 for future CQN charities, and you will receive a bottle of this very special single malt whisky to commemorate the great day when it is bottled in several years.
Eden Mill is Scotland’s newest and most innovative distillery and brewery incorporated in February 2012! Located just 2 miles from the famous Old Course itself it provides a perfect base for hospitality for yourself and 3 friends on a day of your choosing at the forthcoming open golf championship on July 16th to 19th.
But this is so much more than just a day’s hospitality at the home of golf. Before taking to the course to watch, you will enjoy a breakfast roll or two and discuss your perfect single malt whisky with the master distiller.
Whilst you and your friends are enjoying the golf he will seek to surpass your favourite whisky by using the best barley to create the right wash and recommending the right type of barrels for our very own unique CQN 1/4 cask of single malt. A cask which will mature and provide over £5000 of future funding for our charities in a few years’ time.
You will return to the distillery by shuttle bus for lunch and an optional beer tasting and then for afternoon tea with a tutored gin and whisky tasting with the owner capping off a memorable, unique and very special day for your group and for CQN.
My thanks to Eden Mill for their incredible support. You can bid on the auction here.
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BT,
Your informant has every right to refuse to pay the expected return to where the ST price was.
I believe that the reduction was due to their absence, as the club expected a reduction in demand, due to the same absence.
If that it is true, the. It is logical to expect them to return to the hun included seasons prices.
We both know that Celtic Park will be packed for their return…..even though some will justify it as being due to supporting the team and not the club, as we have heard it before.
Bottom line is that the majority of our supporters will support their return, with their cash.
You know that from Day1, I have consistantly argued that Celtic had only two options to retain total integrity.
Either do a Derry City and locate to another jurisdiction or,
Do a Belfast Celtic and close down.
Neither is feasible or possible at the moment, so we, all of us, have to make the most of it and in doing so, are actually complicit, if not condoning the scandal.
TTT
We are in it up to our necks unfortunately
BT,
Indeed we are, all of us.
I think that is where all the anger that has crept into CQN over the last few years has come from.
We are angry and frustrated and feel like we are trapped in a bad marriage…..but can’t let go.
Enjoy your day. Lawnmower awaits.
We won’t have a major increase in ST sales.
Many of the 50,000 ticket holders in MON’s tenure have found different pursuits.
Many of those who stopped going on the demise of the Rangers will return.
But it’ll be balanced by those unable/unwilling to stump up the additional £100.
If Sevco 5088 manage to secure their first promotion there could be an opportunity to underpin something like the Kano Foundation as a result?
Non-season ticket sales of about/at least 20,000. Each non ST sale includes a £5 mandatory donation to Kano foundation (happy to fleece part time old firm fans). That’s £200k for the season. At £50 a ST that’s 4,000 seats paid for every week. If prices rise and the cost is £100 that’s still 2,000 seats. If that’s too ambitious, a mere £1 levy would still result in 800 or 400 seats respectively… for the whole season…
Just a thought.
HH
The Exiled Tim: IIs it a still life or a semi-nude model?
hamiltontim
09:23 on 8 April, 2015
herbo
01:58 on 8 April, 2015
Absolutely not!
HT and Morrissey will vouch fur me aw day :-)
Guilty by associaton M ‘lud
HH
Awe Naw
Double dunted!! :-)
THOMTHETHIM
It’s a very difficult maze to negotiate. Rangers return to the top tier,their fans and apologists everywhere rejoice in their usual fashion.
We all know the truth,that they should be gone forever as a punishment for their crimes against the game and against various laws of the land.
However,they’re not. They have escaped punishment,bar a wee jolly in towns they had never visited before and certainly aren’t welcome to do so again. Celtic fans rightly take umbrage at this and consider it a stitch-up.
Now,if we just say-“
f…it,had enough. Game’s a bogey and the ba’s burst,I’m not going back. Not one penny more when that lot are there laughing at us.”
Who will be the winner from all the cheating which took place? A triumphant hun-packed Ibrox,or a virtually-deserted Celtic Park?
I don’t like it any more than you do-and yes,I stay down South,but I still contribute to the family STs-but I’m buggered if im gonna turn my back on Celtic and let that lot win just because we’re disgusted that they cheated and got away wi it!
(Others will feel differently,and are entitled to do so)
Bmcup,
Signed. As one who believes in equality from Oxford to Oban this is very relevant and applicable, however others may disagree.
Cest la vie.
HH.
thomthethim for Oscar OK
10:24 on
Hell will freeze over before Celtic will do a Belfast Celtic.
However, as long as it is willing to participate in the skulduggery surrounding Scottish football, it should drop the guff about ‘not just being another football club’.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
10:41 on
8 April, 2015
THOMTHETHIM
Who will be the winner from all the cheating which took place? A triumphant hun-packed Ibrox,or a virtually-deserted Celtic Park?
THEY have already won.
I
It is ,as I have always stated ,and been heavily slated for stating so.
There will always be some form of Rangers.
They are the representation of the biggest tribe in Scottish football.
The tribesman are always going to follow what ever reincarnated team that is formed.
To believe otherwise was just wishful thinking.
The crime is that They were not stripped of titles that were won unfairly.
The Celtic support have had a wee laugh at there expense ( in the short term).
We have not received any form of justice.
They can still lay claim to 54 titles etc.
This has never been challenged by Celtic or any other Scottish club.
Indeed the SFA and UEFA are also treating them as the same club.
It is a disgrace that it has come to this stage and Celtic haven’t United with the other Scottish clubs to at least insist that this is a new club ,and that the history of the old club could not be claimed by the new club.
I am so angry with our board ,that they allowed ,and continue to allow this to happen.
There is still time to put a stop to it.
But the representatives of our club lack the desire to state the obvious.
They are failing us badly.
TT
ONE!….and, only ONE!…force of folk could and, would rock the Scottish-Hun-Orc-Establishment…out of it’s foundations…or, be the wind that shook the barley…and, that is a Celtic board packed to the brim with…rebellious Celtic supporters or, if ye like a Celtic board full of the Neil Lennons who, rattled the referees cages…making them spit their dummies and, go on strike…a board who will call the shots…not a board who will meekly kow-tow to their Orc-masters for an easy life…not a board who will be, cowed by Stewart Regans – “We’re awe feart fi the hun-civil-unrest.” – Fluck thum!…a board who will, make it clear that, hun-orc-sectarian-racist-singing at CP will lead to an indefinite ban from CP, by the board and…any interfrence from the SPFL-puppets and, the Celtic board full of rebellious Celtic supporters will be dragging Scotland’s erses onto the world-stage to explain why Celtic’s board would be wrong on doing this…a board who will ensure that…ach feck it….apathy rools…….oot.
TinyTim-you sum that up for me too.HH
You can say what you want about the split
(personally dont like
too open to manipulation in crucial years
i.e CELTIC go to Swinecastle 3 times )
But the way the Bottom 6 is shaping up
certainly will have some excitement.
St Midden down
Ross County won 7 out of last 8 with one draw.
Murderwell won 3 or 4 in a row
Murderwell have to play Partick twice
in 6 ? games remaining
The way County and Well are going
We might not have any Glasgow Derby next season
: O (
TT
Pretty much all fair comment.
Just one point blaming the club ?
what did we the support do? Not a lot (with one or two admirable exceptions) no group of Celtic supporters stood up to the chicanery.
The club could look at the inaction of many and the missing thousands as testimony to what was needed.
Tiny tim. Our board just want us to go to the back of the bus dos they get more bus fare that way……
TINYTIM
That they are,mate.
But for all my mineshafting credentials,I find it hard to really hammer them with blame.
I genuinely believe that the board considered the crimes over Ibrox way so obvious that all they had to do was allow due process to take place.
In that,they were correct. Due process should have seen them hammered. Hung out to dry. Not even a stone left for them to crawl under in their shame.
It’s a f…..g disgrace what has taken place in the last four years,and the twenty before that. But it is Scotland’s disgrace,not Celtic’s disgrace.
BCW those who run celtic are and should be our leaders. They were the ones who should have took the initiative. Instead they have colluded in the corruption.
It’s beyond disgraceful and its season book renewal time. Many of my friends want to pretend it didn’t all happen. Good luck to them. Me? I can’t go any,pre and live with myself. Next season will be the first I have had since I was 9 not going to games. It’s going to be very strange but there you go.
fascinating, ta
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Tontine Tim
23:53 on
7 April, 2015
Big Nan
22:25 on
7 April, 2015
IF YOU KNOW THE HISTORY. CELTS GET 3 AT HAMPDEN & PAPER EXAMINES THE ISSUE OF “THE BRITISH HUNS”!
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1915-04-05%3A+Queen%27s+Park+0-3+Celtic%2C+League+Division+1
*one of the players mentioned in the Celtic team is Johnny Browning who was part of our 6-in-a-row side. He was Willie Maley’s first signing from Vale of Leven, he also played for Bonhill Hibs and Dumbarton Harp, as he created his 2nd great Celtic side.
After leaving Celtic he was playing for Dumbarton when he was found guilty along with former deid team player Archie Kyle of attempting to bribe Bo’ness player Peter Brown in a public house in Glasgow’s Dundas Street: both men were sentenced to 60 days’ hard labour.
Archie Kyle was the grandfather of Celtic supporter and blues singer Frankie Miller.
Bobby I disagree. Celtic partook in the 5 way agreement. Celtic said nothing after injustice after injustice was thrust upon us. Did wants them back. Loves them in fact. PL made up lies about losses. And they have buried res 12 and left it to supporters to carry the can.
Add to that their inaction on the OB and the persecution of celtic supporters.
It’s celtics problem alright because unless they tackle it they are a willing part in Scotlands wider racism.
And Bobby I have always maintained unless celtic did so,etching the real losers in all of this over time will be celtic.
And so it will be.
TT
Pretty much sums up my feelings, the non stripping of titles was what we should have pushed for.
However, my support of Celtic was never, and will never be deter
……determined by any form of them.
NegAnon2
11:10 on 8 April, 2015
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Agreed 100% Amigo.
There are too many sooky-ersed sorts trying to portray themselves as some sort of torchbearers of rebellion….they blow with the wind and, are worth the watching…imho…
There will be a core support for a team playing out of Ibrox based on traditional cultural identity. That is a fact and I’m happy to accept that. That means in some form that support will be back and active for a team representing that. I can accept that.
However, it is the terms of that return that are at issue.
Years of cheating, liquidating and dumping £50-£140m must have consequences and these should be transparent, clear and accepted by all:
1. This entity is a new club
2. It cannot lay claim to any achievements (honest or tainted) of the old, now stopped, club.
3. It must run it’s business on different and self-sustaining lines, live within its means
4. It must give and earn respect before seeking to make a wider contribution to Scottish football.
5. It must accept that it did wrong, apologise and show contrition (real) for that
6. Scottish football should demand and accept some form of financial reparation over an agreed period to reflect point 5 which requires more than ‘honouring’ football debt.
I think the above is fair and reasonable.
To date I do not believe that Scottish football has achieved or even attempted to achieve any of the above. That is the problem, not a club playing out of Ibrox displaying a form of cultural identity. It is that governance (or lack of it) that will ultimately determine my approach to the future, not the prospect of having to encounter the hun hoarde.
HH
*stripping not non stripping*
NEGANON
I understand your point too,and agree with much of it.
But I still reckon the board thought that the law of the land would do the business for them. Justice will prevail,an admirable sentiment.
Frankly,so did I. Maybe that’s why I find it so hard to criticise their naivety. But then,I at least have the excuse of having spent most of my adult life in England.
Who knows,perhaps Paul McBride advised the course of action which took place as he had the ready responses for jiggerypokery. They took the course of action for a reason,IMO.
And it wasn’t to see hunnery back ASAP wi 54 titles.
big-cup-winners
11:03 on 8 April, 2015TTPretty much all fair comment.Just one point blaming the club ?what did we the support do?
the Leadership should have came from the club,not factions of our support.The Board bought into the Regan myth of ‘civil unrest’,and said nothing.HH
Has the glib and shameless liar appeared on his white charger yet?
Rumour has it his horse is called Shergar :)))
Neganon2
what did you do?
Just realised that we’ll miss next week’s game against Kilmarnock because we’ll be in Ireland. Does anyone know a pub in Letterkenny that will definitely be showing it?
Bada
Fair point about the leaders.
But many of the footsoldiers simply want them back.
SIPSINI
There’s a bliddy enormous statue of King Billy in Bristol-Queen’s Square,seeing as he was a bit of a shirtlifter!
Anyway,if you look closely,you can see the molehill left by our wee friendly mole.
Wikipedia doesn’t do it justice,I’ll mail you a cracking photo for yer hun workmates.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Square,_Bristol
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
But, supporters have no official or direct relationship with the governing bodies and the governing bodies refuse in the main to have any relationship with supporters.
The Club has a direct relationship with both the SFA and the SPFL. It was up to the Club to lead in those arenas. I believe if the Club had led appropriately then the support would have followed and been able to do more.
It is the governance of the game which has been found wanting, has not acted appropriately and is still unfit for purpose. It can only be the Club that can address this because it is a part of it which supporters are locked out of.
That is the dilemma. IMHO
HH
Some Celtic fans seem to be tricked into thinking that they’d be breaking some moral-code if…they took a decision and said – for the good of Celtic FC…I’m not going to the game…you are not getting my money coz…you are ‘not’ Celtic…the heroes of 1994 had to swallow their pride and…miss the Killie game at CP to get rid of the board…were they any less of a Celtic supporter for doing so?….No…they werent…and I was one of them….I’ve said on here since I 1st appeared on the blog that the board had to be sacked coz…they are not Celtic…and, they wouldnt know a Celtic supporter if one kicked them in the haw-maws…they dont look at you as a supporter…all they see is a £-sign and, once they have your money…you dont matter…some folk used to try to get me removed from here for my constant sniping at the Celtic hierarchy, now they’ll try to tell you that they’ve always been the same as me….oh yeah?….Beware of the CQN-cameleons.
My choice for tonight.
Gordon
Matthews
VVD
Denayer
Izzy
Bitton
Armstrong
Stokes
Commons
Forest
Griffiths